The Flaming Lips Reissuing Their First Recordings

The Flaming Lips are releasing two new remastered collections of works from their early career through Rhino/Warner Bros. The releases feature music from the band’s days with Restless Records before signing to Warner Bros. in 1991. Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips—a 19-track compilation of tracks by the Lips’ original lineup—is available April 20. It features the band’s first two cassette demos and their debut self-released EP. The second release is Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986-1990, a six-CD box set spanning the band’s four Restless Records albums—Hear It Is (1986), Oh My Gawd!!!…The Flaming Lips (1986) , Telepathic Surgery (1989), and 1990’s In a Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares). It also includes two discs of rarities and is out May 25.

Scratching the Door and Seeing the Unseeable will also be reissued on vinyl and include songs that have never before been physically released. Both collections were remastered by Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, and the band’s longtime producer David Fridmann. The releases will be available for digital download and on streaming services—over 40 tracks will make their streaming debut. Check out Scratching the Door’s cover art below.